{"id":1191,"date":"2020-09-25T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/09\/25\/4480537-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:17:39","slug":"4480537-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4480537-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create additional FTP Accounts on cPanel at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Multiple FTP accounts are great if more than one user will be accessing your website&rsquo;s files. You can also restrict the new account&rsquo;s access by allowing it to access only specific folders.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-create-a-new-ftp-account\">Create a new FTP account<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To create a new FTP account, open your cPanel account and click on <b>FTP Accounts<\/b> section:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/31de9778-6347-41bf-896f-9819d4262283.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel FTP Connections menu item highlighted\" data-media-id=\"4662\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">On the top of the page, you will be presented with <b>Add FTP Account<\/b> section, there you will be able to choose a domain and specify the username, password, custom directory, and quota for your new FTP account:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/8857307c-d492-4ce3-bcb6-a87032ce61b5.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel Add FTP Account form with Unlimited quota selected\" data-media-id=\"4663\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once created, FTP accounts can be easily removed in <b>FTP Accounts<\/b> section:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/b8cde3ae-ab83-4467-a6ca-db73f6cb68ac.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger cPanel FTP Accounts page with the Delete action highlighted for an FTP account\" data-media-id=\"4665\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional resources:<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1869164-how-to-upload-backups-with-ftp-in-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to upload backup with FTP?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4480505-how-to-connect-to-your-hosting-using-ftp-in-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to connect to FTP account?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583246-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-in-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to create additional FTP accounts on Hostinger dashboard?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583246-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-on-hpanel\/\">How to find FTP details on cPanel<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating additional FTP accounts via cPanel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftp-file-manager"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4480537-how-to-create-additional-ftp-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/4480537-como-crear-cuentas-ftp-adicionales-en-cpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4480537-bagaimana-cara-menambah-akun-ftp-di-cpanel-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4480537-como-criar-uma-conta-ftp-no-cpanel-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14491,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/14491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}